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MAJOR LEAGUE LEGENDS - PREMIERES MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29 AT 8PM ET/PT

SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL™ AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM UP TO PROFILE FOUR OF THE NATIONAL PASTIME’S MOST ICONIC PLAYERS MAJOR LEAGUE LEGENDS PREMIERES MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29 AT 8PM ET/PT EMMY® WINNER MARTIN SHEEN NARRATES SERIES OF ONE-HOUR PROGRAMS THAT OPENS WITH BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL ON HANK AARON   New York, January 20, 2016 – Smithsonian Channel and Major League Baseball have teamed up to tell the stories of four players who transcended the National Pastime and left legacies as true American icons: Hank Aaron, who surmounted racism in the Deep South and became baseball’s home r...